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Melissa Harris-Perry in "Black Female Voices: A public dialogue between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry"

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On Sunday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry doubled down on her apology to the Romneys for using their family photo in a segment of her "Look Back In Laughter" episode, which aired at the end of last month.

In his defense of Harris-Perry (catch up on the entire brouhaha here), the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates referred to her as "America's foremost public intellectual." Politico's Dylan Byers seems to disagree:

So Byers is entirely sure that there is such a thing as "America's foremost intellectiual," but he's confident that Harris-Perry doesn't fit the bill. Why? Well, we could ask why, why, and delve deep into a conversation about racism, sexism and a history of the dismissal of black women and their intellectual contributions. But let Byers tell it, and Coates' put his credibility (!) on the line by vouching for Harris-Perry because she's a weekend host at MSNBC.

(Side note: It's curious that Byers wants to strip Coates—who has quite the record of lending brilliant thinking to nearly everything important that happens in this country—of his credibility, just because he co-signed MHP as important and indispensable.)

Except that Harris-Perry is not just that. She's an author, professor, political scientist and, yes, a public intellectual. (For fun, I'll leave this conversation between Harris-Perry and bell hooks here.)

But, what better way to straighten out the misinformed than with a hilarious hashtag? Jelani Cobb started #PoliticosBlackIntellectuals, which reworks the titles of black history's most famous folks to poke fun at Byers' gross under-description of Harris-Perry's career. Read these and learn you something today.